Your life isn't a to-do list. You're allowed to exist, to take life as slow as you'd like. The dreams you have won't suddenly disappear. It's okay to stop and smell the roses, or to engage with "childish" things, or to recover, or do what you need to.

God there was a time when I took pride in not looking Odia, and cringing over my own culture

call me crazy, but I don't think you should have to call your kid's school and beg them to not punish them or call CPS on you over their attendance when they've been consistently sick all school year, during a PANDEMIC, and they're all there unmasked around hundreds of people all day

like encounters like

That laws against seeking higher wages and lower rents were necessary suggests that in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death and in the subsequent decades of the fourteenth century there was a perceptible change in mentalité.

... Lamentations for times past, when people knew their station in life, were common in the decades after the Black Death.

... Laborers in Italy demanded higher wages, too. In Florence, the chronicler Matteo Villani noted that “serving girls and unskilled women with no experience in service and stable boys want at least 12 florins per year, and the most arrogant among them 18 or 24 florins per year, and so also nurses and minor artisans working with their hands three times or nearly the usual pay, and laborers on the land all want oxen and all seed, and want to work the best lands, and to abandon all others.” That these demands were more than the disgruntled wishes of a few is clear when one sees the official responses: attempts to cap wages and force people to accept employment no matter the terms.

- Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction, by Christian W. McMillen

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Sound familiar? "Quiet quitting", anyone? How about all the ridiculous articles on the disadvantages of remote work?

The appearance of the word "arrogant" there in reference to workers requesting fair or even good pay is especially funny.

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The Black Death (~ mid 1340s to 1350s) was the most deadly pandemic in recorded history.

i spent a semester at art school at the height of covid lockdown as like a "study away" type experience because i missed being around ppl who were interested in technique and wanted more critical feedback. did a lot of interesting things and met some interesting people but mostly realized that being a professional illustrator would be a unique form of torture for me. unless i could make like magic the gathering cards that would be dope

well folks i learned an important lesson about using a vape that has been used by roughly 647372626 other people on the same night in a world that is barely post-pandemic

Most of the i/p related posts ive reblogged are very much aimed at international audiences (which unfortunately means its mostly usa centered. Like half of the posts I see israel are talking about the us. For some reason) but despite being considered by some a Nich Internet Microcelebrity me just posting stuff on tumblr isnt doing much so I am starting to look into activist groups within here because after everything that have happened I can not imagine my future not at least somewhat involving taking part of activism

hi clari!! do you happen to be interested in ballet at all? i’ve been doing ballet for years now and i’ve been curious if of your iterations of touya would let reader be a dancer, for example a dance major in college? it’s such a “cute and girly” thing that i think they might like it but at the same time i could see them getting jealous of any potential duets with other men or how “revealing” the uniforms are

but either way i’d love to know what majors you originally have each of them doing since most, if not all, of your stories have the reader doing college?

hope you’re doing well!! <33

hi anon!! <3 oooh i actually love ballet so much and i will forever regret talking my mom out of enrolling me in it when i was 8!!! EEE ehehe it’s funny u ask actually because once upon a time i was writing a ballet au with dabi! i dunno if i’ll ever finish it tho hahaha >.< so since all of my readers are already enrolled in university by the time they meet touya/dabi, there’s no way he’d be able to control what their major is; they already decided on it on their own and most are at least a year or two into their studies when they first meet him, so he isn’t able to decide what it is they’re studying (which means yes, they’d be forced to ‘allow’ her to continue her dance major! no matter how much they don’t like it! they won’t be changing programs simply because their overbearing, overprotective, over-possessive boyfriend doesn’t like it).

that being said, you’re 100% right! my touyas/dabis would be totally torn between loving it because it’s so beautiful and awe-inspiring (they’re totally enraptured—enchanted—when they watch her perform) and being extremely jealous that literally anyone else gets to see their girl in such beautiful costumes dancing such beautiful numbers and that anyone gets to fucking touch their girl at all. out of my three main iterations, touya-nii would be the worst with his possessiveness and would definitely demand she never dance a pas de deux with anyone (despite the fact that she wants to, that it’s good for her career + exposure, or that her grade depends on it. tnii is way too selfish to give a fuck about any of that, and he’d much rather she stay in the corps forever—in his mind, he’s like why would she ever need to be prima anyway? when she has me? when i can provide for her? etc.)

good question! so their majors are intentionally left vague so you, the real reader, can project whatever you’d like onto them! in my mind, they study art of some form (probably literature and/or film since that’s what i studied HAHAHA but i also love the idea of studying fine arts or dance like u said!!!), with the exception of bmb reader, who in my mind studies psychology. but again, feel free to imagine them studying whatever you’d like to! i hope you’re doing fabulous, sweetpea! <3 thank u for ur question!!!

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So funny talking to people who dont even have an opinion about the immortal science of marxism-leninism besides thinking that lenin was reallyyyyy bad in the sort of all i know about communism i learned in history class and from my dad. Its quite charming, i havent done that in a while

tfw your housemate calls the police because your neighbors have started literally coming out of their house to yell angrily at you any time they see either of you outside at night (e.g. checking the mail, sweeping the garage), and when the cop comes out your housemate explain that you've had to start doing these things at night because it's the only time your covid-vulnerable self can avoid those same neighbors who like to hang out maskless in/near the street, and the end result of everything is that now you are on notice that you will be cited if your neighbors get shoutin' angry at your bringing in the trash can from the curb at 9 PM, because they are "normal" and you are not

Housemate asked "so if I have to do all these things during the day again, can I expect that the neighbors will mask and/or give me a bit of distance while I am doing so?" The cop laughed.

i wish that the work retreat dance party every year did not remind me that i think [faculty member redacted] is really hot

normally i don’t think this bc he’s kind of a dick to his trainees but in a stupid work event dance floor setting i am instead reminded that he’s pretty and gay and a kind of terrible but earnest and dedicated dancer

all of which just is hot imo

fortunately when we return to the real world i will cease to think this because i will instead be distracted by my moderate disapproval of his performance as a manager and my perplexity at the choices he makes for his lab space

every time I get an asthma attack from existing in an indoor public place because someone is smoking they should have to pay for the $75 of asthma meds I take every month.

(disclaimer – I fully support the decriminalization and legalization of marijuana. i just also support the right for people with respiratory disabilities and sensitivities to exist)

heir to the devil's fortune — chapter 24

Chapters: 24/25

Word Count: 327,095

Rating: M

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Summary: The Kryn Dynasty and the Cerberus Assembly both suspect there is information in the ruins of Aeor that could cause civil war among the dens. The Dynasty would like to make it disappear. The Assembly wants nothing more than to get their hands on it.

Vurmus Outpost researchers are slowly disappearing, and Essek Thelyss is not believed as dead as he would like.

He’s already sacrificed everything else—all that’s left to save his own skin is to shed it.

(Essek uses the Transmogrification spell to disappear, and finds a tentative home in hiding as the long lost son of the Ruby of the Sea.)

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Chapter Summary: Fortune Lavorre finds he has a life he cares to keep.